Category: About Us

Jason Brown, President and CEO

The Governing Board of Marketplace Chaplains announces the appointment of Jason Brown as the new President and CEO of Marketplace Chaplains effective immediately.

Brown has served for the past twenty years as the Chief Marketing Officer, where he was responsible for sales management, marketing communications, brand management, strategic initiatives, and chaplain recruitment.

Brown is a proven servant-leader recognized by his peers as an industry-wide expert in the Faith at Work Movement, Workplace Chaplaincy, and Employee Mental Health disciplines.

Robin Lewis, Chair of the Governing Board, said, “We know he will do a commendable job and are excited to see him take this leadership role. Jason is exactly the leader we need to take the largest corporate workplace chaplaincy ministry in the world to new heights.”

Brown started with Marketplace Chaplains in February of 2002 charged with new client development. During his tenure, the organization has grown from 875 chaplains serving 240 companies to the current 1,900 chaplains serving almost 1,300 companies in the United States and Canada. Jason has helped lead Marketplace Chaplains’ expansion with year-over-year double-digit growth.

He came to Marketplace with 20 years of corporate sales and marketing experience, including tenures at Procter & Gamble, Wrangler Outerwear, and Computer Resale Technologies.

Additionally, as a professional athlete, Brown won the 1991 World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider title, while also serving as the rodeo’s National Spokesman Coordinator. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University Rawls School of Business with a degree in Marketing where he also co-founded the Young Entrepreneur Society. 

In 2020, Jason received the OnCon Top 100 Marketer Award and in 2021 received OnCon’s Top 50 Marketer Award, selected by his peers. Jason and his wife Cyndi are the proud parents of twin boys, Layton and Parker, who enjoy competitive bass fishing and attend Dallas Baptist University.

Brett Billups, Chief Human Resources Officer

Brett Billups comes to Marketplace with a distinguished career of Human Resources leadership in multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 corporations, not only in the HR realm but in strategic planning, business re-engineering and change management. He has been an independent HR consultant to a variety of industries and is the author of the book “Biblical HR – Applying Eternal Truths to Everyday Work.”

His pursuit of Christian development in the workplace led him to found Biblical HR, LLC in 2021 based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

Brett and his wife Krissi have four grown children and a growing number of grandchildren. They live in Flower Mound, Texas.

Gil & Ann Stricklin

In 1984, Ann and Gil Stricklin launched a service ministry that would care for hundreds of thousands of employees and family members from coast to coast, border to border and in various foreign countries.

Gil A. Stricklin
September 11, 1934 – September 10, 2023

• Available 24/7 to employee and employee’s family
• Conduct regular worksite visits
• Chaplains visit employees’ home, hospital, nursing home, funeral home or jail
• Can meet at a neutral site away from the workplace
• Grief, family deaths and funeral

Chaplains can discuss confidential issues:

• Stress
• Parenting
• Marriage
• Financial Concerns
• Addiction
• Aging Parents
• Serious Illness
• And More

At company request, chaplains can:

• Draft suggested letters of “concern,” “sympathy,” “appreciation,” and “congratulations”
• Write articles for company publications
• Advise on matters of religion, morals, ethics, morale as they impact company and employees
• Speak at events or company meetings
• Provide materials dealing with specific issues/problems
• Represent company to clients, customers, suppliers
• Participate in new employee orientation

Marketplace Chaplains exists to share God’s love in the workplace by providing an employee care service through Chaplain Teams.

• Excellent Chaplains
• Exceptional Care
• Every Employee

Compassionate Care

We serve employees and one another with a deep commitment to understand and walk with others through their joys and sorrows. We employ the highest level of professional chaplain skills while respecting appropriate boundaries. We offer encouraging support to employees and colleagues in their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. We strive to reflect God’s love for all people in our professional and personal relationships.

Collaborative Teams

We work together in harmony to advance the mission of Marketplace Chaplains. We believe there is intrinsic value in bringing together a team with a diversity of God-given gifts. We foster and integrate the best ideas and talents on our team to achieve the best outcomes for the employees we serve. We pattern our conduct toward one another after the biblical mandate to submit ourselves to one another out of our mutual reverence for Christ.

Kingdom Impact

We serve in partnership with the Holy Spirit to meet the needs of employees and offer opportunities for life change through faith in Jesus and fellowship in a local church community. We pray for the people we serve to experience the life of joy, hope, and peace God desires for all people.